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Florida Lawmaker Proposes Bill Standardizing Short-Term Rental Rules
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Florida Legislature is considering a bill that would prevent local governments from enacting regulations effectively banning homeowners from using Airbnb and other peer-to-peer economy companies. -
Trump Proposes Cutting Taxpayer Funding for Government Art Agencies
Opinion -budget-tax-news -President Donald Trump submitted a draft budget to federal government agencies in February proposing to increase military spending by $54 billion. -
Utah Senate Rejects Lawmaker’s Call for Amendment Resolution
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Lawmakers in the Utah Senate rejected a lawmaker’s resolution calling for a national convention to draft and enact a balanced budget amendment prohibiting the federal government from spending more money than is taken from taxpayers. -
Illinois Lawmakers’ ‘Grand Bargain’ Tax Hike Vote Delayed
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) blamed Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) for Cullerton’s derailment of scheduled votes on spending and taxation, accusing Rauner of “interjecting himself” into negotiations over a “grand bargain” deal. -
Florida Lawmaker Bets on Legalizing Fantasy Sports Games
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Florida state Rep. David Brodeur (R-Sanford) has proposed a bill defining daily fantasy sports games as games of skill, which would remove these online player competitions from state gambling restrictions. -
Wisconsin Legislature Considers Bill to Cut ‘Policing for Profit’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Wisconsin state Sen. David Craig (R-Town of Vernon) is sponsoring a bill that would restrict local and state government agencies’ ability to take citizens’ property without criminal convictions under a process called civil-asset forfeiture. -
Oregon Lawmaker Proposes Legalizing Daily Fantasy Sports
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Sports fans in Oregon will be able to participate legally in daily fantasy sports (DFS) competitions, competing for cash and prizes, if lawmakers approve a bill currently before the state’s legislature. -
North Carolina Lawmaker Proposes Eminent Domain Ballot Question
Opinion -budget-tax-news -North Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill to ask voters to approve new restrictions on local and state governments’ power to seize and resell people’s private property to private developers. -
Arkansas Gov. Hutchinson Signs New Tax Relief Plan
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Arkansas lawmakers approved Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s (R) proposed tax-relief plan, reducing tax burdens by about $50 million and reforming the state’s income tax rates. -
Tennessee Gov. Haslam Tries Again on Gas Tax Hike
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) met with a business lobbying group in Nashville as part of an ongoing campaign to garner support for a proposed increase to the state’s gasoline tax. -
Arizona Lawmaker Proposes Gas Tax Vote for 2018 Ballot
Opinion -budget-tax-news -An Arizona lawmaker is calling for a ballot question asking voters to approve a 10-cent hike in the state government’s gasoline tax. -
Illinois City Lawmaker Calls for Federal Enforcement of Online Taxes
Opinion -budget-tax-news -As a research firm warns of a pending economic recession in Decatur, Illinois, a local lawmaker is calling on the federal government to require businesses across the nation to collect and pay state sales taxes on purchases made from other states. -
Illinois State Senators Reject ‘Grand Bargain’ Pension Bill
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The Illinois General Assembly rejected a pension-reform bill proposed as part of a 12-bill “grand bargain” compromise budget package, Senate Bill 11, which includes income tax increases and a full state government budget plan. -
Missouri Residents Sue Over Unions’ Right-to-Work Repeal Effort
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Labor unions in Missouri are collecting signatures to place a referendum question before voters in 2018, seeking to repeal the state’s newly enacted right-to-work (RTW) law. -
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Join Lawsuit Challenging Philadelphia Soda Tax
Opinion -budget-tax-news -More than 30 Pennsylvania state lawmakers from the state’s House of Representatives and Senate are joining local business owners’ legal fight against the City of Philadelphia’s newly enacted sin tax on soda and other sweetened beverages. -
Move Some Federal Agencies Out of DC, Proposed Resolution States
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Congress is considering a resolution advocating the moving of federal government agencies’ headquarters from Washington, DC to other cities. -
Congressman Proposes Rolling Back Cigar Power Grab
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A Florida congressman is proposing a bill to roll back a 2016 power grab by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, revoking the agency’s authority to restrict cigar sales. -
Shining a Light on Midnight Regulations
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Presidents from both parties have historically ramped up regulations as lame ducks. But, especially for controversial policies published in not only the final months and weeks, but days and hours, of an administration, extra scrutiny is needed. -
Oakland, California Lawmakers Offer Taxpayer Money to Sports Team Owners
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Oakland, California lawmakers are hoping to talk the National Football League’s (NFL) Oakland Raiders out of plans to move to Las Vegas, offering a taxpayer-subsidized financing deal. -
Maryland Regulators Reject Proposed Rideshare Driver Regs
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A Maryland government agency rejected a proposal that would have required about 30,000 drivers for peer-to-peer service companies, such as Uber and Lyft, to undergo government criminal investigations in addition to the companies’ own security measures. -
Wisconsin Lawmaker Proposes Prevailing-Wage Repeal
Opinion -budget-tax-news -A Wisconsin lawmaker has announced he plans to introduce a bill that would remove restrictions on how state government agencies may partner with private businesses on capital infrastructure projects. -
An Informative Handbook for Encouraging Downtown Revitalization
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Review of The Downtown Message: What Your Business District Says Can Make It More Successful, by John L. Gann Jr. (CarpeHoram), 2016, 63 pages; $59.75 at http://www.salesjobsandtaxes. -
Oklahoma Legislator Proposes Weakening Tax Relief Trigger
Opinion -budget-tax-news -An Oklahoma Republican is proposing a bill that would revise the state government’s “tax trigger” law, raising the revenue level at which the state government is required to reduce income tax rates. -
IRS Demands Private Consumer Data from Bitcoin Exchange
Opinion -budget-tax-news -An online cryptocurrency exchange company is vowing to fight a federal agency’s efforts to compel the release of millions of consumers’ private data and metadata.
